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MelonTheMan ,
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One of my friends won’t quit twitter because there’s no good sportsball on mastodon/Lemmy/kbin that I can find. Any groups, people, communities that talk about sportsball?

Would appreciate recommendations

Chadus_Maximus ,

Sadly that’s the fediverse’s biggest weakness. The platform is too recent to have established communities for specific hobbies.

minishoemaze ,

I like fanaticus.social for sports, but it could use some more members

Sanctus , (edited )
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Some people love the X.com twitter. They love the QAnon injected directly into their veins feed. I don’t know how you could love any of the pricing changes but hey if 5 bucks makes you feel important…

Either way, by and large most people don’t care about net neutrality, or actual freedom of information. I had some friends of mine try to say ElonJetTracker was doxxing. When that shit is publically posted by the FAA and other organizations because planes need to see where other planes are.

There will never be a “total victory” in this world. Where someone does something shitty and everyone shuns and isolated them. That is a relic of the ancient world. There are just far too many people now to get everyone to ditch something even if that something was extremely detrimental to everyone else. Take the small victories while you can and always push for better education.

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

The only XCom I like is the one that makes me miss shots at point-blank range shown with a 100% chance to hit

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Funnily enough, that still describes Elon’s.

Son_of_dad ,

This is one big reason I began to hate Reddit before the API bullshit. Reddit users would constantly bitch about Elon and Twitter, while linking to Twitter on every thread. How much further does Twitter need to fall, for people to stop using then as a default link? They don’t create content anyways, they’re just a link middle man, Twitter is essentially Pinterest

Azzu ,

Twitter is definitely not just a link middle man, the main use for most is to follow people that use Twitter as their main way to talk/make annoucements about what they do. Be it politicians, artists, event organizers, teams, players etc.

For example where I regularly see links to Twitter is when people/organizations announce what they’re doing with eSports tournaments. They don’t announce that anywhere else. So if you want to be informed at all, you must have someone viewing their Twitter feed, either yourself or through someone else.

justhach , (edited )
@justhach@lemmy.world avatar

Yep, the centralizing of announcements is a bigger issue than link aggregation.

I work in pest control and want to follow several industry experts and guess what? They only use twitter to disseminate information because they’re mostly academic and don’t follow too much online drama.

I want to continue following them, but need to create a Twitter account to do so since Musk’s new ideas broke the website recently and you can no longer lurk without an account.

So I am torn between trying to follow experts and improve myself as a professional, or cut myself off from that source of information in order to try and reduce the amount of traffic that twitter gets.

Azzu ,

I would suggest Nitter to you, and then subscribe to its RSS feeds.

Thorny_Thicket ,

I exclusively post original content on twitter. It’s the only platform I’ve managed to grow any audience at.

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

I think much like invidious or piped, most people aren’t aware of nitter.net for sharing twits.

spiderkle ,
@spiderkle@lemmy.ca avatar

It’s been a bit of a ghost-town since Musk anyways. Isn’t it called “X” now because that will get investors excited again or was that just a PR stunt, i can’t tell the difference anymore with the ridiculous stuff Elon does.

MossBear ,

I haven’t touch them in a long time, but I went in and closed down two old accounts today.

UserDoesNotExist ,

I don’t care. I am on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Lemmy, and probably a shit ton more. And I jump wherever I want. It doesn’t matter who is in control. Just the fun I have with a platform. The value it has for my life.

And Twitter is now even more fun than before. It’s so toxic, so much discussions, I love it.

It has never been docile, but boy, shits finally let loose. It’s like Reddit in the good old days.

JazzAlien ,

The bots don’t like what you said

UserDoesNotExist ,

It’s just funny arrows pointing upwards or downwards. It’s not that important. No one needs to like my opinion.

But there is nothing worse than a dead post without any comments. So I thought I’d start something here.

In retro perspective I didn’t need to. People started all by themselves.

MBM ,

What are you, an edgy fifteen-year old?

picassowary ,

30 going on 13

UserDoesNotExist ,

Nope. Just some dude who has found his own form of entertainment.

I’d rather have fun with something than getting angry about trivia.

What use does it have to you to get angry about a platform you do not seem to be involved with anymore?

Call me edgy and immature all you want. I am happy.

MBM ,

As long as you’re just observing, do what makes you happy I guess

UserDoesNotExist ,

Oh no. You misunderstood me. I am extremely bored with my studies. Hours in front of books is tiring. Most people around me are boring as well. Not the brightest unfortunately.

On twitter I am just reposting the most radical left stuff or radical right stuff I can find from different accounts. While I am not as big as hedge funds, I do like to compare myself to them. I consider myself a social hedge fund. I do my part in accelerating the development of political ideologies by leading people into believing there needs to be a more extreme opposition on each side.

And people online are so naive. I already got you on the hook, don’t I? Nah, I am just kidding. I am just a peaceful observer on twitter and other social media. :)

Billy_Gnosis ,
@Billy_Gnosis@lemmy.world avatar

All Social media is a huge cess pit anyway. Before Musk, Twitter was a sound board for militant leftist weirdos who would censor anything that didn’t conform to their agenda. No different now, just went the other way. Who cares in the end? It’s all shit

FreePanda ,

The militant leftist weirdos care. Lol. Listen to them whine here.

UserDoesNotExist ,

In the end we are all miserable. Left or right doesn’t matter. Unhappiness is normality. It is the driver for improvement and discussions.

SpeedLimit55 ,

Twitter is still the best platform for sports news and info.

unwinagainstable ,

I will gladly read news blurbs wherever if reporters switch to another site

flyingcloud11 ,

I rarely use Twitter but I’ll be using it even less with this rebranding. It takes away everything we all know. Musk is really trying to destroy the platform and burn everything Twitter was.

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

“No shit, Sherlock” prize of today.

But for most that are still there, the reasoning is: “everyone I care enough to follow is still here”

People attract people and twitter still has a huge number of daily and monthly active users. It’ll take some time until it becomes the next facebook: still big but not as widely used in the west.

Saturdaycat ,
@Saturdaycat@kbin.social avatar

I agree with you. I think the toxicity of Twitter is damaging and radicalizing even more people that wouldn't normally be exposed to the hateful garbage of the likes of /pol/

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